Webkinz Newz

Congratulations to Monica, Miranda, Danielle, Lee, and Wendy on being selected as winners in the Webkinz Newz Winterfest contest.  Each one of them designed an amazing winter-themed yard using wShop items.  The winners have each been awarded a Build-A-Snow-Fort Siege Tower.

 

 

Many of you had wondered if seasonal wShop items would be allowed in the contest.  It appears that the answer is "yes" as the top winner has four "First Snow Christmas Trees" from December 2008.  To see the winning entries, please visit the Webkinz Newz contest winners page, HERE.

On the WebkinzNewz site, today, it was announced that the recently introduced Triceratops is being retired. As many of us know here, sometimes, Ganz makes just a short run of pets and when they are sold out, they are retired. It seems that this little fellow was quite popular and such is the case. If you have any stores near you with the Triceratops, I would say get this special one of a kind buddy now.

 

Also our Partner store, Ameriwade seems to have some in stock. Here is the link: Ameriwade

 

For those of you looking to complete your new kids room, the new Kid's Play TV that we had been seeing in the ads is finally available in the W-Shop.

During this early morning a couple of our Webkinz Insider members Pollywog and Elefancy were really fortunate to get on to Webkinz World and tell us about the new theme that we were promised.

 

Today we say goodbye to the Kid's theme which was the standard set of furniture when you first adopted your first pet. It will be fascinating to see what it is replaced with in adoptions. However we DO know what it is being replaced with in the W-shop. The New theme is called 'Kid's Theme' just as the old one was. The New Superbed is called 'Explorer's bed' with a globe underneath, saddle bags on the side and a flashlight to keep you lit at night. We have no real answers as to whether the Kids theme is permanent or relegated to the Curio Shop. That news should come in later today, But here is the Twitter statement on this 'It'll be gone, no time to think of consequences.

 ~*~ WARNING, do not place wallpaper and Floors of New theme. They are showing as BLUE ~*~

 

For now, here is a picture of this new 'Kid's theme' and the New Superbed!

 

 

*Update* Thank you to WI member Ginny for providing the first in-room pictures of the new Explorer Bed!

 

 

A few days ago we told you about a bunch of new events, activities, and items that were scheduled to appear in Webkinz World for January.  Today, we can bring you some more information on new stuff in Webkinz World.

 

First, many of you have been asking about the Pet of the Month song for the Webkinz Schnauzer.  Ganz has announced that "Moustache Louie" will be coming to Music Starz and to the Ganz eStore "later this month".  For those of you who like purchasing downloads of the POTM songs at the eStore, don't forget that you can now download copies of the videos there as well.  Click HERE for more details.  In the Webkinz News article Ganz has announced that a "special eStore surprise" related to the POTM videos will be coming soon.  We don't know what that's about yet, but will bring you more information as it is released.

 

Also, Ganz posted a little bit of a "teaser" in the Webkinz Newz regarding the Caring Valley.  According to the article, Webkinz player should keep their "eyes peeled in Webkinz World for a floating Caring Valley leaf!"   Could this be a new "fest-type" event coming to Webkinz World?  As soon as more information becomes available we will bring it to you here.  In the meantime, you can read about previous "click to win" events in the Webkinz Insider WIki, HERE.